Immigration judge · Harlingen Immigration Court

Immigration Judge JNC

According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: lead-nationality share at n/a is the most distinctive stamp on Judge JNC's EOIR row. Grant rate sits mid-corpus at 51.0% (above the 48.3% national average).

Data updated 2026-09-05

51.0%
Asylum grant rate
49.0%
Asylum denial rate
386
Asylum decisions

Judge JNC in one line

Judge JNC's asylum grant rate is 51.0% (mid-band grant rate, above the 48.3% national average) across 386 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (mid-band volume).

51.0%
Asylum grant rate · Mid-band grant rate
386
Merits decisions · Mid-band volume
+2.7 pp
vs. national average
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"JNC" is the anonymized judge code DOJ's Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) assigns in its public case-data release, not a verified public identity. EOIR does not publish immigration judges' full names in this dataset, so this code should not be read as confirming, or attributing these statistics to, any specific named individual. See our methodology for detail.

Statistical data only. Individual judge grant rates reflect historical case outcomes, case mix, nationalities handled, and legal representation rates all affect these numbers. This is not a prediction for any future case. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge JNC vs all tracked IJs by asylum grant rate

Where this judge's FY2015–2025 asylum grant rate sits among every tracked immigration judge (a leniency measure, not a quality ranking)

51% 588th of 1696 higher than 1,108 of 1,696 judges

Immigration judges, banded by asylum grant rate

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Source DOJ EOIR asylum merits decisions · FY2015–2025

Year-by-Year Outcomes

Historical asylum merits decisions for this anonymized EOIR judge code. Annual rows can be thin, and are not a forecast of any future case.

FY Decisions Grants Denials Grant %
2015 2 2 0 100.0%
2016 1 1 0 100.0%
2017 1 1 0 100.0%
2020 62 8 54 12.9%
2021 8 4 4 50.0%
2022 43 27 16 62.8%
2023 83 54 29 65.1%
2024 92 58 34 63.0%
2025 94 42 52 44.7%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge JNC's grant rate

EOIR publishes immigration judges as three-letter codes, not names. This chamber lists nationwide IJs whose asylum grant rate is closest to 51.0% (ABS gap), with a merits-volume stamp so volume is visible without a second identical card grid.

1,695 other immigration judges nationwide have a tracked asylum grant rate; the 6 closest matches to Judge JNC are shown here.

IJ Grant Δ vs here Merits Stamp Court
JBY 51.0% same 145 LIGHT Chelmsford
LRJ 51.1% +0.1 pp 976 FULL Miami
JRW 51.1% +0.1 pp 657 FULL Cleveland
JEE 50.9% -0.1 pp 593 FULL Sterling
KBL 50.9% -0.1 pp 527 FULL San Francisco
MWH 50.9% -0.1 pp 53 THIN Baltimore

Same-bench poles at Harlingen

Highest and lowest asylum grant rates among the other 26 IJs at this court with at least 20 merits decisions. Judge JNC is at 51.0%.

Nationwide judges with similar asylum caseload

Immigration judges at other courts with a comparable merits-decision volume, distinct from same-bench grant-rate peers above.

  • IJ JTD · Sterling Immigration Court · 387 merits · 49.9% grant
  • IJ SJB · Indianapolis Immigration Court · 387 merits · 33.3% grant
  • IJ MH · San Francisco Immigration Court · 387 merits · 92.8% grant
  • IJ AKR · Denver Immigration Court · 384 merits · 58.3% grant

Data from DOJ EOIR FOIA bulk case data for Judge JNC at Harlingen Immigration Court. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ JNC at Harlingen Immigration Court; lead-nationality share n/a. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is mid-band at 386 decisions FY2015–2025.

Judge JNC's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - lead-nationality share n/a, not hand-typed editorial values. justice.gov/eoir/foia-library-0

Every figure on PlainImmigration is rendered directly from federal immigration court records, no number is typed in by an editor. Judge JNC's grant/denial/merits figures are recomputed live from the EOIR case-level extract on every request, never hand-typed. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2026-09-05.